Co-op available Galleys available for national galley mailing National advertising National print campaign targeting major publications.. Social media campaign eBook available at time of print publication Extensive regional touring in Louisiana and New York Excerpts in: Poetry, Best New Poets Anthology, Best of the Net, Adroit, Glass, Tinderbox, etc. Promotion through author website https://www.karismaprice.com///

 "I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.”  —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead 

Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone “Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to Night,'” If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence—“We know that mostly everything around us / is measured in blood.”—but there is also immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, a book “so dark you have no other option but to call it / precious.”